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HOW TO BE A COMEDY WRITER

Copyright © Marc Blake, 2005

The right of Marc Blake to be identified as the author of

this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77

and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Condition of Sale

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not,

by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or

otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other

than that in which it is published and without a similar

condition including this condition being imposed on the

subsequent publisher.

Summersdale Publishers Ltd

46 West Street

Chichester

West Sussex

PO19 1RP

UK

www.summersdale.com

Printed and bound in Great Britain

ISBN 1 84024 465 8

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Contents

Introduction .................................................... 8

Part 1

Comedy basics .............................................. 12

Why laugh? ..................................................... 13

Forms of humour ............................................ 17

Visual humour ............................................... 18

Verbal humour ............................................... 21

Part 2

Live comedy .................................................. 30

Stand-up ......................................................... 31

Origins ......................................................... 31

What makes a comic? ..................................... 34

Transcribing material ...................................... 35

Writing stand-up for others ............................. 37

Persona and status .......................................... 39

Targets and attitude ....................................... 45

How to write stand-up material ...................... 48

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Topical material ............................................. 53

Road-testing your material .............................. 58

Building a set ................................................. 60

The open mike .............................................. 63

Editing ......................................................... 66

Character comedy ........................................... 68

Live sketch shows ............................................ 73

The comedy play ............................................. 75

Putting it on .................................................. 79

Part 3

Recorded comedy ........................................ 83

Screen basics .................................................... 84

Broken comedy .............................................. 86

Sketch or quickie? .......................................... 86

Types of sketch ............................................... 89

Radio or TV? ................................................ 97

Themes and formats ....................................... 98

Sitcom ........................................................... 102

Types of sitcom ............................................. 102

Creating characters ....................................... 103

Relationships .............................................. 106

The trap ...................................................... 107

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Plotting ....................................................... 108

Writing a sitcom ........................................... 110

Comedy drama ............................................. 113

Creating a series proposal .............................. 115

Problems with comedy drama proposals ......... 117

Screenplays .................................................... 119

Genre ......................................................... 120

Characters in screen comedy .......................... 123

British comedy and film ................................ 124

Writing a screenplay ..................................... 127

Part 4

Published comedy ..................................... 133

Joke books ..................................................... 134

The comedy novel ........................................ 136

Comedy novel genres .................................... 138

The idea and the synopsis ............................. 141

Writing a novel ............................................ 143

Part 5

The business of comedy ........................... 148

Aspects of the job .......................................... 149

Writer’s block ................................................ 152

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